Recent Sound Project: The Army Nurse

Here’s a short film I was hired to help with recently. I did the production and foley sound. The director, Ryan Margetts, did nearly everything else including post audio and mix. We were a bit rushed to get this entered into the Light This Location contest so we weren’t able to put quite as much into the sound design as we had originally hoped, but it was a fun project and lots of lessons learned.

Sound for Video Session: Mixing a Commercial - Foley, Effects, Music

In this week's Sound for Video Session we have a quick look at a commercial mix I’m working on at the moment. We run through each sound effect/foley, and music track, the effects applied and talk briefly about fader automation.

Links to gear we discussed or used to record this session:

Presonus Faderport Motorized Fader and Control Surface:

Focal CMS 65 Near Field Monitors - Same as the 40s but with 6.5 inch woofers and bass response that reaches a little lower on the spectrum. These are on closeout so a good time to buy if you’re in the market.

Focal Shape 65 Near Field Monitors - These are the newer versions of the CMS. Will be included in our upcoming comparison

Electrovoice RE20 Dynamic Broadcast Microphone (this is the mic I used for this session)

Antelope Audio Orion Studio Audio Interface (This is what I used to record my sound for this session)

Copyright 2017 by Curtis Judd

The Beautiful Lies of Sound Design - Tasos Fratzolas

Tasos Fratzolas is a sound designer and sound effects creator originally from Greece. Here he gives a brilliant talk at TEDx on the beauty and meaning of sound. He covers a little bit on foley, reverb, and the meaning sound can convey. He also shows a brilliant example of how sound completely changes the meaning of a scene (with a video of a toddler's face and different sound effects).

I hope you find this as inspiring as I did.

You can find Tasos' sound library at Soundsnap.com.

Sound for Video Session: Recording Foley & Stereo Width

In this week's Sound for Video Session we discuss the fundamentals of recording foley sound and why the Zoom handy recorders allow you to change the stereo width with their in-built microphones.

Items mentioned in the session:

Foley short film - The Secret World of Foley

- RODE Stereo VideoMic Pro Review (sample stereo recording)

- Shure MV88 Review - Mid-Side and Adjustable Stereo Width Microphone Review

Gear discussed and used to produce this episode:

Aputure Deity Shotgun Microphone - This is the mic I used to record the foley for my current project. I was happy with the results.

Sound Devices 633 Mixer/Recorder - My production mixer. You don't have to have one of these to record good foley sound.

Electrovoice RE20 Dynamic Microphone - Voiceover for this session was recorded with this microphone

Antelope Orion Studio Audio Interface - Voiceover for this demo was recorded with this audio interface.